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From: Don Judy
Date: 1999-12-02
Subject: Re: Plus 4

Mike Dailly wrote:

> AG wrote:
> > For some reason Commodore was always anit-C64 when it came to
> >compatibility.
>
> Yeah... SPRITES!!! WHY 'O WHY!!!! <sniff>..

Top ten reasons the Plus/4 doesn't have sprites.
10. Sprites are Movable Object Blocks. Commodore's in a Philadelphia suburb, home of the firebombing of the
MOVE block. Using a joystick to FIRE at a MOB for enjoyment as the object of a game might have been viewed
as incendiary.
9. It's hard to sell a business guy in the mid '80s a computer with the line "Check this out, you can make
these cool little monsters with big eyes!".
8. VIC wouldn't share with TED. Naughty VIC.
7. The sprites wouldn't go over without their buddy SID.
6. With 60671 bytes free for BASIC who needs sprites?
5. Who needs sprites when you've got this cool Graphic software?
4. "With Sprites!" sounds just a bit unmanly for a sleek black powerhouse like the mighty machine.
3. Hey, with 16 luminance levels for the color blue, who needs sprites?
2. So they could sell you a C64 AND a Plus/4.
1. "Hey guys, wait! You forgot the sprites!"

dj